Artikelen in categorie: Studying and learning

To be successful at studying, you must be able to plan your time wisefully. It’s just not possible to read all your books a day before the exam, watch all the recorded classes and make all the rehearsal exams. By making a planning you make sure you divide every task in smaller tasks, which you will do in a specific order and in a set amount of time.

Reading a textbook of a few hundred pages is possible, but you also need to understand what you have read and remember the information. That can be quite a challenge! How to prevent staring at the pages for minutes, while your mind is blank and you do not have a clue what you’ve just read. Study Psychologists created a term for this: ‘intensive and active reading’. This means that you immediately reflect on what you just read.

A lot of students are so busy with going to college that they often think: why am I doing this? Do you ever have the same feeling? You are not the only one. Even though we all think this sometimes, it is important to get yourself together again and find some motivation to continue studying again. After all, you do need to pass those exams to get your diploma!

It almost sounds like something magic: reading faster. But actually you can learn to read faster in a few easy steps. Since every student needs to read thousands of pages, it will save you a lot of time to if you can read faster. We listed a few techniques to learn how to read faster, without missing any important information while studying.

Besides theories, lists and terms you sometimes also need to learn complicated formulas and memorize them by hard. You might wonder how you can memorize these formulas the best and also be able to apply them on your exam.

Highlighting the important parts of your textbook can be a great way to study or make a summary. Though you always take the risk that you end up with an entirely highlighted textbook. You can prevent this by using the right strategy to use your markers. Because it does really have some benefits to highlight, but you will need a strategy before you begin. Just as with reading a textbook.

Every student knows how to study for at least 80%. Read your textbooks, follows the classes and lectures, prepare, etc. Though, to get through every semester in the best possible way and to be fully prepared for every exam, we listed a few study strategies for you. The best way to study:

It’s the easiest thing to just go to a lecture to sit there and listen. Though you can’t get a very good grade without studying, unfortunately. To memorize all the knowledge in the most efficient and effective way, there are a few strategies you could use. There isn’t such a thing as a very good or the best strategy. It differs per person which is the best strategy, so try them all.

On average we sleep 6 till 9 hours a day. This means that we spend approximately one third of our lives in bed. But how long do we really need to sleep to wake up fit and focussed? Sleeping is essential if you want to get good study results.

Your brain is the most active on certain moments of the day. When you study during these moments, your brain will memorize the most. Studies show that the best moments to study are in the morning, when you just woke up, and in the evening, before you go to sleep.

Committing plagiarism is the act of using someone else’s words or ideas without crediting the original author(s). It has serious consequences such as failing a course or being expelled. Therefore, it is important to fully understand plagiarism and learn how to avoid it.